In spite the notorious advances made by some countries in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals promoted by the UNDP, the advance within the countries, particularly in their different regions is unknown. This report pretends to show a base line of this project for the Bolívar...

This document analizes the preferences of public transportation system users in Cartagena de Indias - Colombia. The research uses related variables on transportation modes chosen by people and some other characteristics of the people who make such decisions. The analysis allows us to understand...

In this article it is realized an inventory of the production of academic and scientific articles about economics in Colombian Caribbean Coast in the last 10 years. The document analyses the scientific production in economics realized in the Caribbean Coast and about the Caribbean Coast, in...

This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of...

The public managers worries to increase the local government revenues are almost always related with changes in the tax rates, affecting all the agents in the economy. However, at the same time tax exeptions are used like policy instrument in order to achieve economic growth in some sectors,...

The goal of this report is to predict what might be the negative effects on the Balearic tourist economy caused by mining oil fields off its coasts. To that end, it evaluates the destructive potential of different types of pedictable spills using data from well-documented spills. The second part...

En este trabajo se examina la movilidad social en el departamentode Córdoba entre los años 2003 y 1996, especialmente en las zonasurbanas. El fenómeno se analiza desde la perspectiva educativa y ocupacional, y se establecen relaciones entre el nivel educativo y lacondición de pobreza,...